I definitely confused after reading this NY Lawyer article about the name of Johnnie Cochran’s law firm.

Via ICANN.blog, an excerpt from Register.com’s SEC filing indicating that there doesn’t appear to be a launch date for the new .PRO top level domain name.

Previous misinformation on .PRO’s sunrise period that I unwittingly circulated here.

The Simpsons Nuclear Powerplant Playset with Radioactive Homer is available here.

Infringing Actions, an IP blog by Kelly Talcott, a litigation partner at Pennie & Edmonds.

It’s interesting how as an alternative to a single-point-of-failure model our electric system has developed a “pretty much anywhere in the eastern U.S. point-of-failure” model.

We went swimming, we lit candles.  I’m glad Pampers don’t need electricity.

Interesting account of ’65 blackout here.

Here is the complaint in the Fox v. Franken case.  Fox says that its star commentator O’Reilly has a distaste for name-calling in political analysis in para. 36.  Fox calls Franken ‘shrill and unstable,’ a ‘C-level political commentator’ who is ‘increasingly unfunny,’ that he ‘appeared either intoxicated or deranged’ at a dinner, that he ‘is not a respected voice in journalism,’ that he lacks insight, and is a parasite, in para. 77.

Franken’s book, “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right,” can be ordered on Amazon, and will be in bookstores soon

In an article entitled: “Linux Lawsuit Could Undercut Other ‘Freeware,’ the Wall Street Journal (p. B1) reports on SCO’s copyright infringement lawsuit against IBM.  IBM appears to be making a licensee estoppel argument, arguing that SCO, who had signed the General Public License regarding the software, cannot make claims regarding that software.

SCO’s law firm is Boies Shiller (Napster’s old firm), and its lead attorney is quoted as saying that “by allowing unlimited copying and modification, [the GPL] conflicts with federal copyright law, which allows software buyers to make only a single backup copy.  The GPL ‘is pre-empted by copyright law.'”